Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has launched a Labour taskforce at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool to “transform early years provision” for all families, saying that every parent should …
At Labour annual conference in Liverpool, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell insisted that Britain needs an interventionist government working with the private sector. An incoming Labour government would borrow in the …
Jeremy Corbyn has promised to hand more power to grassroots Labour activists but insisted that most sitting MPs need have no fear of deselection. The re-elected Leader said that, after …
Jeremy Corbyn told party activists after Labour’s bruising Leadership contest: “Together we are very, very strong”. From now on the party’s priority must be “reaching out, involving people in politics …
The cash strapped BBC is failing to recover tens of millions of pounds for broadcasters by not having an up to date strategy on licence evaders. A report by the …
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady has backed a Commons probe into corporate governance which will focus on excessive executive pay and the make-up of boardrooms. The move by the business, …
By-elections after the death of Labour MP Jo Cox and the resignation of former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron will be held on 20 October. Mrs Cox was killed in …
Former European Council president Herman Van Rompuy warned that substantive Brexit talks between the UK and the rest of the EU are unlikely to start much before the end of …
The foreign affairs select committee has ruled that British courts should decide the legality of Government arms exports to Saudi Arabia. The MPs backed calls for the UK to suspend …
In what has become the dirtiest US election campaign in memory, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson both failed to qualify for the first presidential debate on …
The Women and Equalities Committee has exposed a shocking scale of sexual harassment and sexual violence that is not being tackled effectively in British schools. I ts report revealed that …
Theresa May’s plans for a new wave of selective schools in England has began to unravel as they were condemned across the political and educational spectrum, but some councils in …
A former policeman embroiled in the Battle of Orgreave has revealed he refused to obey “wrongful orders” from senior officers. His evidence will bolster evidence that the police, given a …
The media and entertainment union BECTU is to merge with Prospect next year after its membership voted decisively in favour of joining forces with the professionals’ union. The ballot closed …
Ian Hernon New TUC research has found that around one in eight (12%) men and women are forced to stop working before state pension age due to ill-health or disability. …
The TUC warned directors’ pay at FTSE 100 firms has reached “stratospheric” levels, with top executives receiving a year’s worth of the minimum wage in just one day. The research …
The TUC has warned companies that there will be “no hiding place” if they exploit their workers. General secretary Frances O’Grady told delegates at its annual conference in Brighton that …
The ‘Tom Clarke Bill’ was passed in 1986, and Tom Clarke himself here looks back at what the legislation achieved and what still needs to be done. The Disabled Persons …
A new book by Ian Hernon examines pivotal ‘crimes’ in world history and the long-term effect they had on the societies in which they were committed. At its simplest, …
At the start of this month, the New York Times revealed Donald Trump’s tax records from 1995 showing he had reported a loss of $916 million dollars, which could have …
It is a great shame for Labour in Scotland that the UK party has voted for the renewal of Trident, as this will severely affect Scottish Labour’s hopes for recovery …
The Tories are long into a orchestrated plan to transform the electoral landscape by subverting democracy to further their partisan interests. Yet to date it has barely been criticised for …
Dame Margaret Anstee June 25 1926-August 25 2016 Margaret Anstee overcame childhood poverty to become one of Britain’s first woman diplomats, and the first female under-secretary-general of the United Nations. …
Having had their knuckles rapped at Judicial Review earlier this year, Cornwall Council are involved in another planning storm relating to the proposed reopening of Dean Quarry on The Lizard …
Despite worldwide support for the kidnapped girls, more needs to be done. Earlier this year the International Development committee visited Nigeria as part of an inquiry into the work of …
Following the damning Police Ombudsman’s report, the day may yet come when those responsible for the murder of six men at the Heights Bar will finally be prosecuted. On 18 …
The story of the involvement of New Zealand soldiers in the battle of the Somme 100 years ago. From the bloodied survivors of their mauling on Gallipoli and with the …
One of the myths of Europe is that the right to free movement must be to the disadvantage of what are called native workers. The Leave campaign brilliantly fused latent …
European leaders took time to stop and reflect on the future of the continent in Bratislava last week at a meeting of the heads of 27 EU governments – without …
Were early socialists right to argue that sport was a distraction from the path to socialism? Apart from Brexit and the saga of the Labour leadership election giving the …
Donald Trump has a record of resisting union organisation in his businesses, and yet his false promises still appeal to white working class voters. Despite the pro-worker, anti-trade deal rhetoric …
The return of grammar and secondary modern schools is inexplicable, even to many Tories. Why the Conservatives want to bring back Grammar schools – and with them, of course, Secondary …
Tribune went to press before the Labour Leadership vote closed, but assumptions were that Jeremy Corbyn will have won again due to overwhelming support among the rank and file. Considered …
The new Far Right in Europe is exploiting the alienation caused by the dominance of neo-liberalism There’s an increasing number of violent events taking place across Europe, driven by …
The Most Reverend Edward Daly December 5 1933-August 8 2016 Edward Daly may be best remembered as the priest holding up a blood-soaked handkerchief who brought a dying teenager through …
Scottish politics has been torn post-Brexit vote by much the same issues as the rest of Britain, with independence the key difference. It may well turn out that Scotland’s …
Ppresident Obama and Chancellor Merkel’s hopes of getting the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade deal finalised by December 2016 were dashed when it was revealed that EU and US …
Labour is pushing back against the neo-liberal tide, and Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election can ensure that process continues. The political agenda has been drifting steadily rightward for the best part …
The deaths of 262 miners in Belgium in 1956 still has resonance today as we contemplate the possible break-up of the EU. At 8.10am on Monday 8 August, the …
The emotions that led to the vote to leave the EU were bred amid the dying embers of the Cold War, writes Glyn Ford. Brexit’s deep causes were belligerence, arrogance …
I can’t even remember the day the letter arrived. Certainly no one bothered to wait at home for the mail. Least of all me. I had a valley to conquer …
Power. That was the fundamental gulf between this autumn’s Labour and Conservative conferences. Power. The Tories flaunted power in Birmingham while the hard truth is Labour displayed little or none …
After more than five decades of violent conflict in Colombia, finally peace was in sight. Four years in the making, a new deal that was brokered between the government and …
Monster’s ball Theresa May appears to have recognised that the Black and White Ball, the ultra-lavish annual Tory fund-raiser where table places go for up to £1,500 a head, may …
The exclusively Protestant Orange Order needs to decide if it can become a vehicle for the rebirth of Christian socialism in Ireland, or take advantage of the growing cross-border relations …
Lewis Carroll would have had a field day had he been alive to attend the Tory and Labour conferences. In Liverpool, for all the earlier talk of a fight for …
The NHS is struggling to reconcile burgeoning health demands with the need to limit spending. It does not have the money to fund care for all those who need it …
The Tories gather in Birmingham following a Labour Party conference which opened with what we hope is not an annual event – a Labour leadership election result – and was …
When it comes to equality the Labour Party has been pioneering. We are the Party of the Equal Pay Act, the Sex Discrimination Act and the Race Relations Act. It …
Keith Waterhouse once suggested that anyone who felt his (sic) faith in the Labour Party waning should make sure that they attended conference as they would most assuredly be inspired, …
As Westminster business resumes, don’t expect a change of direction from the new Prime Minister and her Government. All three party conferences – Liberal Democrat, Labour and Tory – …
The United Nations this week has its annual ‘General Debate’ where world leaders congregate to exchange platitudes across the floor and meet each other on the sidelines. Diplomacy is like …
New Labour is in its death throes and is experiencing severe convulsions as its former dominance over the Labour Party is being comprehensively expunged. This is manifesting itself with increasingly …
In 1976, after James Callaghan won the Labour Leadership contest to succeed Harold Wilson, Labour’s former deputy leader Roy Jenkins resigned as an MP to become President of the European …